Monday, April 26, 2004
via volokh, article on the invisible adjunct,
what's wrong with academia, why she's quitting as a teacher and as a blogger.
she comes off as way wrong, but very likable.
part of what she's missed: teaching, if low pay, is high status.
every profession is being changed by the information revolution.
including french silk-weavers. the book i'm reading right now
(why am i blogging? i have a good book, and a hot bath growing colder)
is about IBM, and how the jaccard loom displaced french silkweavers, and the punchcard replaced a lot of quill-pen clerks.
as a full professor, she would reach, what, hundreds of students a year.
as a blogger she has an audience of thousands.
i have this friend who, having some doubts about his a career, built himself a blog.
he found an audience and a voice, and now has a gig as a writer, and feels more economic and social security. heh. i mean, he feels more self-confident.
i'm at a point where i may need to make a big career change myself.
whether i can afford the time to keep blogging, whether to invest some effort in learning how to fix the broken parts, whether to keep my license, take new cases, that sort of thing. i might go get one of my old jobs back, and keep the practice as a hobby, which was the original plan. i had a call today which may keep the wolf from the door for another month, a likely sale of one of my vacant lots. i'd cashed a check today from what's left of my brokerage account, to cover a bounced check.
i recently lost a big case i'd worked on since 97, so there are a few years of work for which i won't be getting paid. i knew the job was dangerous when i took it.
what's wrong with academia, why she's quitting as a teacher and as a blogger.
she comes off as way wrong, but very likable.
part of what she's missed: teaching, if low pay, is high status.
every profession is being changed by the information revolution.
including french silk-weavers. the book i'm reading right now
(why am i blogging? i have a good book, and a hot bath growing colder)
is about IBM, and how the jaccard loom displaced french silkweavers, and the punchcard replaced a lot of quill-pen clerks.
as a full professor, she would reach, what, hundreds of students a year.
as a blogger she has an audience of thousands.
i have this friend who, having some doubts about his a career, built himself a blog.
he found an audience and a voice, and now has a gig as a writer, and feels more economic and social security. heh. i mean, he feels more self-confident.
i'm at a point where i may need to make a big career change myself.
whether i can afford the time to keep blogging, whether to invest some effort in learning how to fix the broken parts, whether to keep my license, take new cases, that sort of thing. i might go get one of my old jobs back, and keep the practice as a hobby, which was the original plan. i had a call today which may keep the wolf from the door for another month, a likely sale of one of my vacant lots. i'd cashed a check today from what's left of my brokerage account, to cover a bounced check.
i recently lost a big case i'd worked on since 97, so there are a few years of work for which i won't be getting paid. i knew the job was dangerous when i took it.
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